[PATCH v6 0/4] Fix free/allocation of runtime gigantic pages

Alexandre Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Mar 14 03:48:21 AEDT 2019


On 03/13/2019 05:41 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/7/19 5:20 AM, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> This series fixes sh and sparc that did not advertise their gigantic page
>> support and then were not able to allocate and free those pages at runtime.
>> It renames MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION || CMA condition into the more
>> accurate CONTIG_ALLOC, since it allows the definition of alloc_contig_range
>> function.
>> Finally, it then fixes the wrong definition of ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE config
>> that, without MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION || CMA defined, did not allow
>> architectures to free boottime allocated gigantic pages although unrelated.
> Looks good, thanks for all the changes.  For everything generic in the
> set, plus the x86 bits:
>
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>

Thanks Dave,

Alex


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